So
called camp doctors, especially the notorious Josef
Mengele, would torture and inflict incredible
suffering on Jewish children, Gypsy children and many others.Patients
were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death,
and exposed to various other traumas.

When
a mother did not want to be separated from her thirteen-year-old daughter, and
bit and scratched the face of the SS man who tried to force her to her assigned
line, Mengele drew his gun and shot both the woman and the child. As a blanket
punishment, he sent to the gas chamber all people from that transport who had
previously been selected for work, with the comment: Away with this shit!

Polished
boots slightly apart, his thumb resting on his pistol belt, Mengele surveyed his
prey with those dead gimlet eyes. Death to the left, life to the right. Four
hundred thousand souls - babies, small children, young girls, mothers, fathers,
and grandparents - are said to have been casually waved to the lefthand side
with a flick of the cane clasped in a gloved hand.